Word: thuy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Roving Ambassador Averell Harriman, who at 76 boasts not only a long record of suecessful negotiations with Communist diplomats but astonishing stamina as well. Backing up Harriman will be Cyrus R. Vance, 51, until last year the Deputy Secretary of Defense. As its chief representative, Hanoi designated Xuan Thuy, 55, a veteran diplomat and journalist who retired as Foreign Minister three years ago. Supporting him will probably be Mai Van Bo, 50, the pudgy, polished former teacher who since 1961 has skillfully represented Hanoi's interests in Paris...
...been born in the U.S. instead of in Ha Dong province, on the outskirts of Hanoi, Xuan Thuy, 55, most probably would have become a corporate executive-if never a board chairman. As a youthful agitator and underground journalist and later as a diplomat, jowly Xuan Thuy (pronounced Swan Twee) earned the trust of Viet Nam's Communist chieftains. Even during a three-year eclipse from public view before last month when he was named minister without portfolio to head Hanoi's negotiating team, Thuy retained a resonant string of official titles, notably as a member...
Politburo membership and the policymaking power that goes with it have always exceeded Thuy's grasp. He stands at the front of the second rank. "Thuy is a thoroughgoing professional," concedes a U.S. diplomat. "He knows what he's doing, even if he is only doing what he has been told." As Foreign Minister from 1963 until his removal two years later for undisclosed-and hitherto unnoticed-"health reasons," Thuy mouthed Hanoi's message, glad-handed visitors, and facelessly executed orders from above. He was replaced by Nguyen Duy Trinh, a pro-Peking hardliner. Although favoring Moscow...
Promoting the Cause. As second-in-command of North Viet Nam's team. Thuy was a stubborn, wily opponent to U.S. Negotiator Averell Harriman at Geneva in 1961-62 for 15 wearying months of bombast and bargaining over Laos. In Paris he can be counted on to be an equally abrasive advocate, doing his best to erode American stamina with long-winded tirades and propaganda points before the negotiators get down to substantive issues...
...Whatever Thuy's official ranking, he has been one of Ho Chi Minh's closest and most trusted cronies for two decades. Rising steadily upward from his initial efforts as a schoolboy agitator against French colonial rule in the 1920s, he attracted the attention of the French Sureté, and at 18 was shipped off to the penal colony on Poulo Condore archipelago in the South China Sea, the Asian equivalent of Devil's Island. Two more jail terms followed, interspersed with propaganda work; from 1939 to 1945, he edited a clandestine pro-Communist newssheet...